| Subject: | missing Copyright information for Test::Synopsis |
Hi:While packaging your module, Test::Synopsis, for Debian, I noticed that
your module doesn't seem to mention copyright information.In Debian we need copyright/license information for all of the packages
we upload. Could you give us (replying to this email is fine): years of
copyright, copyright holders' names, copyright holders' e-mail addresses.
Unfortunately without this information we cannot upload it.This is more than just a Debian issue. I'm not a lawyer, but it's my
understanding that both copyright and licensing information is vital
for the continued success of open source software. Copyright is what
allows you to assert a license, and a license is what ensures open
source remains open source, and that users can make use of your software.
A great article discussing some of this is "What is Copyleft?" by
Richard Stallman: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/Thanks for releasing your work to the CPAN. I apologize in advance for
Cheers, Salvatore On behalf of the Debian Perl Team
the noise, as I understand that the last thing most authors want to
deal with is legal administrivia like this. I do hope, however, that
you could (in your continued generosity) help us with this request.
Please also consider adding these statements to your code/package
README, since we must distribute some evidence of copyright information
if it is not in the source package itself.